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The Number of Erythrocytes in the Blood of the Silver Salmon
Author(s) -
Katz Max
Publication year - 1951
Publication title -
transactions of the american fisheries society
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.696
H-Index - 86
eISSN - 1548-8659
pISSN - 0002-8487
DOI - 10.1577/1548-8659(1950)80[184:tnoeit]2.0.co;2
Subject(s) - spawn (biology) , blood collection , fishery , zoology , salt water , fish <actinopterygii> , biology , environmental science , medicine , emergency medicine , environmental engineering
The mean blood count of 119 fingerling silver salmon from Swamp Creek, Washington, was 1,496,000 erythrocytes per cubic millimeter of blood. The data suggested that within a single collection the larger fish had a slightly higher blood count than that of the smaller fish. The average blood counts seemed to increase and decrease with changes in water temperature. The number of erythrocytes in silver salmon feeding in salt water and in salmon preparing to spawn was not greatly different from that of the fingerling fish.